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If you feel that texting does not express your mood while you type an SMS, then new 'light messaging' by Nokia of Finland might just do the trick for you.

The company has filed a patent on a new breed of cellphone capable of 'light messaging', which could enable users to send a text with a background colour that clearly expresses their mood.

According to New Scientist magazine, the phone's software allows one to choose a colour that represents his or her mood: red for raging angry, perhaps, blue for sad, or yellow for mellow. The colour is encoded with the message, and is used to illuminate an LED array on top of the recipient's similarly equipped light-messaging phone.

	The colour is encoded with the message, and is used to illuminate an LED array on top of the recipient's similarly equipped light-messaging phone.

Nokia's Teppo Jokinen, the inventor of the system said that light messaging would 'enrich and improve user experiences', according to US patent application.

OGRE-SHREk! MP3 PLAYER..

Who can forget that utterly disgusting yet likable green ogre – SHREK! Now there’s an interesting MP3 player on the way (still in concept) which looks like Shrek. Pretty interesting actually.

As usual, it comes in Shrek’s signature green color, sotring earplugs where the “ears” are. There is also 4GB of internal memory within. A cool gift for any season I must say.
[Via Ubergizmo]

WINDOWS 7

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp launched Windows 7 on Thursday, its most important release in more than a decade, aiming to win back customers disappointed by Vista and strengthen its grip on the PC market.

The world's largest software company, which powers more than 90 percent of personal computers, has received good reviews for the new operating system, which it hopes will grab back the impetus in new technology from rivals Apple Inc and Google Inc.

"They met expectations but that was pretty much it," said Michael Gartenberg, a long-time Microsoft analyst at market research firm Interpret after a launch event in New York. "They showed off some very cool things, but now they have to keep the momentum going."

The new system -- which is faster, less cluttered and has new touch-screen features -- comes almost three years after the launch of Vista, whose complexity frustrated many home users and turned off business customers.

The success of Windows -- which accounts for more than half of Microsoft's profit -- is crucial for Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to revive the company's image as the world's most important software company.

"Windows 7 is a chance for us to let the PC be not only more interesting but just simpler and faster for the many, many hundreds of millions of people who use them," Ballmer told Reuters Television in an interview on Thursday.

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MAGIC MOUSE "Oh WOW..!"

Apple product announcements are seldom without a thorough element to them. But I must confess that I do not remember the last time I saw a product accessory grab the headlines from the Macs themselves. Don’t get me wrong – I think the new iMacs are awesome and I just love the fact that the MacBook has been given lots more muscle. But well, my “oh wow!” moment was seeing the new Mighty Mouse (now known as the Magic Mouse), the world’s first multi-touch mouse. The improvements in the Macs had mainly to do with specs, the mouse (more…)

KORB electribe EXM-1

The Korg Electribe EMX-1

The Korg Electribe EMX-1 is designed as an all-in-one techno-production station, and contains a drum machine, and a synth/ sequencer enclosed within its solid metal casing. It has lots of knobs and buttons for the gadget fiend (20 knobs and 68 buttons), an info display, a Smartmedia card storage (ideal for saving off songs and using as a workpad) and two lovely valves (Valve Force Vacuum Tubes) set behind a little display glass...like you see in the museum. The valves make up a genuine analog circuit and are linked up to the Tube Gain knob that can be altered at your desire to make your sounds...warmer in a vintage sort of way.

Electribe EMX-1- MMT?

Multiple Modeling Technology is Korg's technology that creates sounds within the Electribe EMX-1. For the brainy buffs out there MMT offers 16 different types of synthesis, these range from powerful analog synthesis to a various number of digital synthesis to which Korgs of the past were built upon (like PCM and waveshaping). So now we have to play around with 207 PCM drum waveforms, 76 PCM waveforms and a whopping 64MB of song memory.

Outputs

The Electribe EMX-1 has a full MIDI spec, accessed via MIDI In, Out and Thru sockets, and audio is also bi-directional, with two main and two assignable individual audio outs, plus an audio input. Only mono audio (at mic or line level) can be accommodated. The machine can even be sync'ed to audio via this input

Electribe EMX-1- The Machine

The striking metallic-blue front panel is quite logically divided. You can easily pick out the synth section, effects, Part select and keyboard button area, and the row of 16 'keyboard' buttons, which also doubles up for a range of edit options, and mimics the black and white keys of a musical keyboard. The standard sequencer transport controls appear to lack fast forward and rewind options, but in fact they're located above the keyboard buttons, doubling as left/right select keys.

Each drum and synth voice is organised as a Part, an indivisible pairing of a voice generator and one track of sequencing played by the Pattern-based sequencer. Step sequencing is favoured (similar to the How to Make Your Own Beat Section), especially for drums, but don't worry, real-time recording with the Electribe EMX-1 is straightforward. Voice editing is very much a part of the writing process, since sounds and sequencing are so closely linked. Indeed, there are no separate voice memories: sounds are tailored for each Part during the composition process.

The synth/sequencer team is joined by three effects processors, a new and cool real-time arpeggiator, the ability to process external audio through the EMX's synthesis facilities and effects, and 'Motion Sequencing', the real-time recording of front-panel control tweaks, as featured on many other Korg products.

The top panel of the Electribe EMX-1 is divided into five or six principal sections. The first one to become acquainted with should be the main section, which houses the transport controls (record, playback and so forth), the mode keys (which determine whether the EMX-1 is in Pattern, Step Edit or Song mode), the ubiquitous bpm Tap key and the useful Mute and Solo buttons (to remove or single out respective parts within your pattern). By using the Auto BPM Scan key, you can easily detect the tempo of audio that is coming from the audio-in jack. The matrix menu that is sandwiched between the large rotary dial and the mode keys helps guide you through what parameters are available for the selected mode. You select the parameter by first pressing the mode key and then moving up or down the parameter list using the two small arrows to the left of the matrix menu.

The edit area is made of five separate subsections that include Effects, Part Common, Modulation, Synth Oscillator and Synth Filter. The 16 onboard effects are selected via the large knob and edited with the two rotary controls beneath it. The Edit Select button allows you to decide which effects processor is being edited at the moment. The FX Chain button is married to the two small red LED lights above it that indicate how the output of one effect is being input into another. All you have to do is repeatedly punch the button to determine the connection. There's also the Motion Seq button that records and plays back the movements of the two FX Edit controls.